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- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 5 hours ago:
This kind of false equivalence is kind of annoying.
Doctors and serial killers both cut people, but they’re clearly not the same, are they?
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 9 hours ago:
I don’t know how difference france is from the US, but I generally believe people are kind of ignorant and thoughtless. These will pull in people. People click on “Four things that are secretly unhealthy - #3 will SHOCK you” chum all the time.
- Comment on suckcess 3 days ago:
Related:
"ai will make you twice as productive!’
“Cool. So I’ll be paid twice as much, or work half the hours?”
“Lol no. I’m keeping the profits”
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 3 days ago:
Yes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don’t want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I’m on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it’ll remind me in a couple hours.
Sometimes for really important stuff I’ll set a timer myself, but that’s more steps than if the OS just had a “remind me later” built in.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 4 days ago:
I found a setting that alleged to enable snoozing, but it doesn’t seem to work. This is an older android phone though.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 4 days ago:
It would be helpful if my phone had a built in snooze function. Sometimes I get a text and I want to snooze it for an hour. Just dismiss the notification and remind me later.
mostly I avoid a lot of the big drains (social media, other than lemmy) and tell people I’ll get back to them within 24 hours.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 4 days ago:
I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I’ll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that’s not guaranteed.
- Comment on call of the void 4 days ago:
AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that’s probably true of most big org’s leadership.
- Comment on the field of frolickology is very vast 5 days ago:
At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.
- Comment on This is weird, I suppose, but do people sometimes feel they learn NOTHING from YouTube? 5 days ago:
Well, yeah. YouTube is a trash platform and pre-recorded video is a dubious medium for teaching.
The platform is trash because the incentives are not aligned with noble goals like “teach people things” or “spread the truth”. It’s “Get engagement” and “get ad impressions”. They also don’t moderate it much, so there’s a ton of slop and lies.
Video is passive. it’s easy to space out or just let it go in one ear and out the other. Most people learn in other ways. An actual lecture can have some back and forth, and a good teacher can engage a class. Books require more concentration. Doing exercises of some sort also force you to practice, and retain it. You could maybe do okay with video if you took notes (by hand I’m told is better), or otherwise engaged with the material in an active manner.
Also, dozens of videos a day? Go do something else. Read a book. Exercise. Play chess. Write something. Sign up for a class and atten. That’s so much passive intake you’re going to turn into a potato.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 5 days ago:
Everything Bethesda does is kind of bad. I’ll probably get them when they’re on sale, but I don’t expect anything good.
Get Larian to make a fallout game
- Comment on we are creators 5 days ago:
Feels like we’re going backwards now with like anti-vax stuff. A lot of tech seems to be getting worse for users, too, like IoT gadgets that stop working for remote reasons
- Comment on PC Gamer taking a jab at the industry 6 days ago:
Capitalism is giving bad outcomes. Labor is divorced from the results of their work, and people who contribute little to nothing (or less than nothing) grow wealthy.
We don’t need to go all the way to full communism in one shot, but I’d like to think most of us can agree the current system is unacceptable
- Comment on You gotta see this one 1 week ago:
I had the same thought, mostly because distracted driving is such a present threat that it’s hard to find humor in it.
But whatever. Someone’s probably going to be reading this while driving. Please stop.
- Comment on Which one are you? 1 week ago:
I rarely use a cart anymore because I do more frequent, shorter, trips and just bring a tote bag. But the other day I went with someone to a store and we used a cart. I returned it to the cart return place and she was like “good. You can learn a lot about someone by what they do with the cart”
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
If you had been buying games you’d have a library 🤷
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 week ago:
Game pass was always going to be bad for consumers, and probably bad for smaller orgs. The problem is people are short sighted and don’t care.
Like with Walmart moving into a neighborhood. People are like oh it’s so much cheaper than the local shops! And then those get priced out of business and Walmart raises prices and lowers salary. People won’t or can’t think ahead
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 week ago:
I’m just going to assume these are republicans and call them scumbags, hypocrites, and heretics.
Matthew 6
1“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
5“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
I don’t know how anyone takes them seriously. They should be laughed out of the room and shunned by polite society. But there are a lot of bullshit “christian” churches peddling nonsense, I guess.
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 1 week ago:
No one’s going to rally around creepy Mike Johnson’s corpse. No one cares about the guy Luigi (allegedly) shot.
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure you could really make a dent in the housing crisis, transit problems, food insecurity, any other real life problem of your choosing, with that kind of money. The fact that they blew it on “the metaverse” should be a crime
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 1 week ago:
He probably read Snow Crash (or maybe an AI summary, because he is a soulless husk) and thought it was super cool. It’s a dystopia. The book is not aspirational.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 week ago:
So many places seem to be run by idiots, if your metrics are other than “personal enrichment”.
Like, one of my old jobs, the CEO laid off almost everyone and is now banging hard on the “return to office” drum. Like, my guy, how is making people do a 2 hour commute going to help? It’s a small company, he knows most of the people live that far away. And then they go into the office, and they end up doing these like hour+ long lunches. Or they leave early for drinks.
It’s fucking stupid. It’s the CEO driving with his emotions. He wants to feel like a big business man with an office, and he wants to have fun socializing. Idiot. Fun guy to hang out with, but he’s making pants on head stupid business decisions. And there’s nothing any of us can do about it.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 week ago:
I think they’re making a joke (what with the /s), but some people will say that since “Nazi” is derived from “national socialist” it’s a form of socialism. Usually people making that claim are arguing in bad faith and/or are grossly misinformed.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 week ago:
Even republicans don’t want fascism.
They don’t? How can you tell?
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 1 week ago:
Yeah I think a lot about the guy I knew that took a job at palantir. When asked about working on questionable stuff, he just shrugged. He was always nice to people he knew personally, so far as I can tell, but bigger picture stuff didn’t seem to matter to him
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
I don’t accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.
Many jobs make the world worse. I’d rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.
Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another “AI” company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into “the metaverse”? Waste of time and resources.
That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That’s a bum deal. But there’s a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you’d likely get more people working.
Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should – wait, he’s southern baptist? The “we’re going to split off because we want slavery” sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.
- Comment on WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family 2 weeks ago:
Most messages are so short I don’t see why you’d need a summary. Are people that poor at reading that like 10 sentences is a struggle? If so, education seems like what we should spend millions of dollars on.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of stuff, turns out. But I’m sticking to my guns. I have a big backlog anyway.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 weeks ago:
Still unemployed so I’m not even looking. If capital doesn’t want to hire me, they can’t have any more of my money.
- Comment on Should I make my game top down or side scrolling? 2 weeks ago:
A metroidvania a la celeste, cave story, untitled story, hollow knight, nine sols, guacamelee? That’s a genre I like that’s pretty popular. Side scroller for that kind of game is well understood.